CVE-2022-1971

CVE-2022-1971: NextCellent Gallery <= 1.9.35 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Vendor Unknown

Product NextCellent Gallery – NextGEN Legacy

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published June 27, 2022

Last update August 3, 2024

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CVSS base score

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The NextCellent Gallery WordPress plugin through 1.9.35 does not sanitise and escape some of its image settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 27, 2022 CVE published

August 3, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1971 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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